Hive Fleet Rules

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From the dude on discord:

Kraken static: When you charge, are charged, or heroically intervene get +1AP.
Kraken adaptive: Advance D3+3 inches.

Behemoth Static: When you charge, are charged, or heroically intervene get +1S.
Behemoth adaptive: reroll charges

Jorm static: non-monsters count as being in dense from >12" away, monsters count as dense from >18" away
Jorm adaptive: your units count as having half the number of models for blast

There's also apparently 3 tables we get to pick from: Hunt, Lurk, and Feed, which has additional abilities. Still kind of murky on that one.

[piersonsmuppet]

Has there been any word on what the difference between static/adaptive is? Both seem like static abilities without additional context, or is it just a flavor name?

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Something about an ability to swap it around. The channel is moving fast and I really haven't been able to keep up with it fully.

[piersonsmuppet]

Hmm, I'm guessing you pick the third from the table and then can swap between adaptive and your Hunt/Lurk/Feed choice during the command phase.

Behemoth is interesting, S9 MST Tyrants w/ AG...

Kraken Horms are going to be insane with TS, auto-wound 6's at AP-2...

Jorm looks good for swarm armies, 20-man gant units are going to be fantastic...

With the previous Levi/Kronos leaks, all the Hive Fleets are looking good with their own identities. Hopefully the trend continues and each fleet ends up having useable Relics/Strats!

[infornography]

These don't sound ... great?
Jorm is easily the best of the three, but the adaptive is not worth much.

We will see what the other hive fleets get, but man, highly conditional single stat changes by 1 as the primary?

I mean compare that to Twisted Helix's unconditional +1 Strength and +1" move on top of making 1-2 wound rolls always fail.

GW has bizarrely, wildly uneven chapter/hive fleet/craftworld/etc bonuses.

[piersonsmuppet]

Would Jorm affect FW monsters? Dense Cover rules themselves say that units shooting at 18W+ don't suffer the -1 to-hit penalty. "counts as dense" is probably just shorthand, but not so great if it isn't.

[ziyousansz]

Since Instinctive Behavior is yet to be seen on anything, I'm wondering if the Adaptive doesn't take its place.

In synapse: Static + Adaptive
Outside Synapse: Static + Hunt/Lurk/Feed trait

[SNA]

The traits work thusly:
Every Hive Fleet gets one static (never changes) and one adaptive. Each Hive Fleet gets access to two out of three lists with 5 generic adaptive traits each, these lists are called Lurk, Hunt, and Feed. At the start of the battle, AFTER you see your opponent's army list, you can choose to swap your adaptive trait with any of the 10 traits across your available lists. So for example, Hive Fleet Behemoth which has access to Lurk (we don't know what the other list is yet but I'm guessing Hunt because they seem to not get access to the one that already fits their style) could look at the opponent's list, see a ton of AP -1 weapons, and swap out "re-roll charges" for "reduce AP -1 to AP 0" from the Lurk traits (this is a leaked one we know exists).

It's the ability to in-game list tailor to your opponent to represent Tyranids adapting their organisms and tactics to counter the enemy they've been fighting. According to the leaker, several of these traits are very powerful and he has not spoiled any of the top 5 best ones yet.

This system does appear to mean that each of the Tyranid traits in a vacuum are slightly weaker than equivalent ones from other factions, but because of the flexibility they are ALWAYS highly relevant to the match-up you are about to play, and in skillful player's hands with lists made to take advantage of it this system will be utterly nasty.

[jesses]

I really hope this is true, this sounds amazing AND fluffy.

Hmmm... must be a lie.